Superfamily
Araneoidea (Araneoid spiders)
Rhomphaea fictilium. Photo: (c) Ilona L, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
Araneoidea is a taxon of araneomorph spiders, termed “araneoids“, treated as a superfamily. As with many such groups, its circumscription has varied; in particular some families at one time moved to the Palpimanoidea have more recently been restored to Araneoidea. A 2014 treatment includes 18 families, with the araneoids making up about 26% of the total number of known spider species; a 2016 treatment includes essentially the same taxa, but now divided into 17 families.
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